William Tenn is the pseudonym for the science fiction work of Philip Klass. Born May 9, 1920, in London, England, he moved to New York where he grew up in Brooklyn. Since 1945, he has written academic articles, essays, two novels and more than 60 short stories.

The Science Fiction Encyclopedia ranked Tenn as "one of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisive writers of short fiction."

Bibliography

Children of Wonder (1953)

Of All Possible Worlds (1955)

The Human Angle (1956)

Time in Advance (1958)

A Lamp for Medusa (novella published as a double with The Players of Hell by Dave Van Arnam) (1968)

Of Men and Monsters (1968) (novel)

Once Against the Law (1968) (anthology of crime fiction edited by Tenn and Donald E. Westlake)

The Seven Sexes (1968)

The Square Root of Man (1968)

The Wooden Star (1968)

Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume I (omnibus) (2000)